The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-07-23
News of the Week.

NEWS OF Inc w Gh.
Sylvnaus Cobb, Jr.. the well-known story
writer, died near Boston, on Wednesday.
James S. Richardson, of New Orleans, the
largest cotton planter in the world, has this
year 3S, 900 acres in cotton and 1900 acres in
corn.
Since June LIST, in Pittsburg and Allegheny
City, 1877 children under five years of age
have died, and nearly rs per cent. of the
number were under two years of age.
John Thomas, colored, charged with fe-
loniously assaulting little white girl. was
taken from the court room at Union City,
Indiana, on Saturday and lynehed by an ex-
cited mob.
The temperature at Pittsburg on July IS,
reached 90 in the shade. Many mills and
factories ceased operations, and large num-
her of sunstrokes were reported three of
them fatal.
Lee, Massachusetts, failed Wednesday The
business was sixty-fve years old and conduct
ed by q corporation until 1872, when it was
changed to partnership.
Philip Hensen, of Corinth, Miss, has prob.
ably the longest beard of any man in the world.
Hensen is a man 60 years of age, six feet two
inches tall, and when he stands erect his
beard touches the ground. 1t has not been
cut for eleven years and is still growing.
Uriel Crocker, the Oldest publisher in New
England, died at his residence, in CohasSet,
Mass, Tuesday. For nearly three-quarters
of a century Mr.. Crocker, as senior member
of the firm of Croker & Brewster, was iden-
titled with book making in Boston. He was
81 years old.
Oscar ]. Harvey, the Treasury Department
forger, was arraigned in the Criminal Court
at Washington on Wednesday afternoon and
pleaded guilty to the Indictment. He was
sentenced to II years Imprisonment at hard
labor in the Albany penitentiary- years
ON each count of the indictment.
A movement has been started among lead
ing business men of Buffalo to raise fund
of 500, 900, which will be offered as prize
for the best invention for utilizing the water
power of Niagara river. The competition will
be open to the world. Several prominent
citizens have already subscribed $1,000 each
toward the fund.
w. T. Colwell, colored man, now in the
Jail at Lancaster, Penna., is suspected of be-
ing the murderer of John Sharpless, in Della
ware county, for which crime another colored
man, johnson, is now under sentence of
death. The matter will be investigated.
johnson, whose execution was set for August
I'd has been respited until September list.
James folly, an eccentric farmer near
Shelbyville, Illinois, had $500 taken from
his house by burglars short time ago.
The robbers overlooked 1000 in COM
Last week Tolly was persuaded by his wife to
take the cash to Shelbyville and deposit it in
bank The coin was in one package, and
two men were required to remove it from the
wagon.
Capt. VIM. Burgess. freight agent of the
Cumberland Valley Railroad at Chambers
burg, Pa, accidentally shot himself Monday
afternoon while cleaning a navy revolver in
his office. He died instantly. Capt. Burgess
was born in Fort Loudon, Franklin co. in 1880,
and his early life was spent in business in
Hagerstown, Philadelphia and Baltimore.
For more than fifteen years he had been in
the employ of the Cumberland Valley Rail-
road.
John Green, a colored ex- convict, now res
ident in Indiana, has brought suit in the
United States Court at Louisville, against
seven citizens of Hart county, Kentucky,
whom he charges with having "Kukluxed"
him, and from whom he seeks TO recover
$4,000 damages. He alleges that in July,
1886, certain citizens of Hart county, where
he then lived, near Bonneville. took him into
the woods one night, beat him severely,
hanged him several times, and otherwise NAL
treated him.
Professor Forbes, State Entomologist of
Illinois, says that chinch bugs have Obtained
foothold in the northern portion of Illinois
to such an extent as to assure an immense
number of them next year, unless weather
unfavorable to their development should in
tervene. He says that the danger from this
source threatens to damage the wheat crop of
1888 to an extent in comparison with which
the pleuro-pneumonia and other recent out
breaks of contagious diseases among domestic
animals will be insignificant.
A freight train and a stock train on the
Burlington and Missouri Railroad collided on
the morning of July Is on a small bridge
near Lincoln, Nebraska The bridge caught
fire, and two engines and thirteen loaded cars
were destroyed, including two cars full of
cattle. The loss is estimated at nearly $780,
600. The train men saved themselves by
jumping off before the collision.
Rev. Father Adrian Rouquette, the famous
Missionary of the Choctaws, died on July Is
in New Orleans, aged IA years. He was
born in New Orleans, completed his studies
in Philadelphia, and was ordained priest by
Archbishop Blanc in New Orleans nearly 40
years ago. He labored for the evangelization
of the Indians in Louisiana, and was Pastor
of the Choctaw Church in st, Tammany par
ish. Father Rouquette. besides the classical
languages. possessed a thorough knowledge of
French, English, Italian, Spanish and 6hoc-
taw.
The State Department on Tuesday received
from the German Emperor a check for $1,000
and two handsome gold watches, embelished
with the likeness and monogram of the
Emperor, with request that the money be
divided equally among the families of the five
members Of the lifesaving crew at Dam Neck
Mill Station, Virginia, who lost their lives in
attempting to rescue the crew of the German
ship Elizabeth on the Sth of January last.
and that the watches be presented to Frank
Tedford and Joseph E. Etheridge, the only
survivors of the life-saving crew.
News was received in San Francisco on
Monday from Ounalaska, that Bishop Leg
hers, distinguished Catholic missionary, was
murdered one night in November last, on the
Yukon river, about 500 miles from its mouth.
The murderer is Frank Fuller, young man
from Portland, Oregon, who accompanied the
Bishop as companion and servant He
gave himself up. No cause for the deed is
given. The Bishop was formerly of Balti-
more, and, prior to being named as Bishop
of Alaska, was the Archbishop of Oregon
and Washington Territory. He left for Alas
ka last summer to perform missionary work
among the Indians, but was allowed by the
Pope to retain his honorary title of Arch
bishop.
R. NJ. T. Hunter died at Fount Hill, Essex
county, Virginia, on Monday, at the age of
IS years. He served several terms in Con-
gress and was Speaker of the National House
Of Representatives in 1888. He was subse
quently elected U. S. Senator, and was
appointed Chairman of the Senate Finance
Committee in 1849. He was successfully
elected U. S. Senator, and retained the
Craftsmanship of the Finance Committee until
the breaking out of the war. He was one of
the candidates for the Presidential nomination
before the Democratic Convention at Charles
ton in 1860 and received many votes. Dur
ing the war he was Confederate Secretary Of
State and Confederate Senator. he was also
a member of the Peace Commission, which
met Abraham Lincoln in Hampton Roads.
After the war he was elected Treasurer Of
Virginia, and held that Office for several
terms,